What is the most sketchy track you have ever ridden?

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Shady grove in dallas. There's a place on cedar creek lake near underground mx where you put $5 in a box and ride. people can't ever...
Shady grove in dallas.
There's a place on cedar creek lake near underground mx where you put $5 in a box and ride. people can't ever figure out which direction the track goes...
Taylor415 wrote:
Haha sketchy always comes to mind when I hear about that blue grooved shithole
I almost hit a piece of equipment in the track and got sick on the trash can chicken
TheWeapon 1/25/2018 4:54pm
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snape99 wrote:
Mount Kembla in Australia anytime there is more than 20 bikes on it
haha I was actually scrolling though wondering if anyone was going to say Kembla!

In photos at least it looks a lot better these days than it used to - I haven't raced there in 15 years or so. I used to love it though....rough, no real big or dangerous jumps (except when Eddie Warren started doubling the 'pyramid'...then we all had to try it). BUT in the wet, the place used to be a disaster. Slippery clay that clogged up everything and made the track almost impossible to ride
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No sketchy tracks around here. But I was about 9 years old and my dad built a ramp out of a single piece of plywood and...
No sketchy tracks around here. But I was about 9 years old and my dad built a ramp out of a single piece of plywood and 2 cinder blocks stacked on each other. Hit that bitch in 4th on my xr100 and nearly died. That was sketchy af.
I got a good education from an older moto dude when I was about that age, doing the same shit with plywood ramps and whatnot. He told me never make a ramp out of anything but dirt and then promptly told his buddies to hit the jump. the first guy biffed it hard and the ramp buckled and they all laughed at him. I never built a wood ramp ever again.
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2 years ago, the OTMX race at Washougal. Rained like hell Friday night, but they'd prepped normal, not packing it for rain, so the entire track...
2 years ago, the OTMX race at Washougal. Rained like hell Friday night, but they'd prepped normal, not packing it for rain, so the entire track was a bog Saturday AM. We raced anyway after a 3 hour delay. At least 50% of each class couldn't make it up Horsepower Hill off the start, me included. I did 3 laps in my 20 minute moto, that's how bad it was. I don't know how many times I fell, but I was dead tired at the end. Then it rained even more Saturday night, and they called off the Sunday racing as the track was unrideable. Not the operators fault, just that PNW clay when tilled then flooded. Super sketchy through the trees.

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that doesn't sound like a fun experience, but a damn good experience none the less. I've ridden Washougal in the mud a few times. Nothing like that though. It's usually pretty rideable in the mud, well it was 10 years ago anyway.

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hangtown mx. narrow track, steep hills, manmade jumps.

the hills make the track difficult and its always littered with some sketchy jumps
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snape99 wrote:
Mount Kembla in Australia anytime there is more than 20 bikes on it
TheWeapon wrote:
haha I was actually scrolling though wondering if anyone was going to say Kembla! In photos at least it looks a lot better these days than...
haha I was actually scrolling though wondering if anyone was going to say Kembla!

In photos at least it looks a lot better these days than it used to - I haven't raced there in 15 years or so. I used to love it though....rough, no real big or dangerous jumps (except when Eddie Warren started doubling the 'pyramid'...then we all had to try it). BUT in the wet, the place used to be a disaster. Slippery clay that clogged up everything and made the track almost impossible to ride
It's still sketchy as hell mate. The jumps are all quite safe but apart from that it's still all the same. I hate all the embankments and chain link fences around the track.
Polarbear332 1/25/2018 7:52pm
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ktmdan wrote:
Shady grove in dallas. There's a place on cedar creek lake near underground mx where you put $5 in a box and ride. people can't ever...
Shady grove in dallas.
There's a place on cedar creek lake near underground mx where you put $5 in a box and ride. people can't ever figure out which direction the track goes...
Taylor415 wrote:
Haha sketchy always comes to mind when I hear about that blue grooved shithole
kunk wrote:
I almost hit a piece of equipment in the track and got sick on the trash can chicken
X3. Went there a few times in the early 2000’s, and the track was like concrete. Jump faces were horrible, and people were all over the place. The last time I went out there my pops got knocked out in the back section. Haven’t been back since. Heard they have freestyle ramps out there for all of the Bro’s now.

Boondoxx is right up there with Shady Grove.
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Phillip_Lamb wrote:
hangtown mx. narrow track, steep hills, manmade jumps.

the hills make the track difficult and its always littered with some sketchy jumps
Seriously? The hills at Hangtown are tiny at best and none of the jumps I've ever hit there have been sketchy.
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snape99 wrote:
Mount Kembla in Australia anytime there is more than 20 bikes on it
TheWeapon wrote:
haha I was actually scrolling though wondering if anyone was going to say Kembla! In photos at least it looks a lot better these days than...
haha I was actually scrolling though wondering if anyone was going to say Kembla!

In photos at least it looks a lot better these days than it used to - I haven't raced there in 15 years or so. I used to love it though....rough, no real big or dangerous jumps (except when Eddie Warren started doubling the 'pyramid'...then we all had to try it). BUT in the wet, the place used to be a disaster. Slippery clay that clogged up everything and made the track almost impossible to ride
I have a love /hate relationship with Kembla. Had a big one there ( broken leg, wrist). And also crashed one day and a mate landed on my bike and broke his back.
Otherwise when it’s prepped it’s not too bad midweek.
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A buddy and I found a fast cross type track west of Rio Rancho, NM that was well built but featured huge obstacles that were concrete hard. I remember clearing a couple of the jumps and was shaking from adrenaline overload after.

Another time we drove about 5 hours into the Colorado mountains for a race we heard about. We showed up the evening before the race to see someone welding sections of a real janky start gate. We started to walk the track and it had about 2” thick fine powder moon dust all over with concrete ruts underneath. We got the hell out of there and ended up driving about 12 hours just to race a track 1/2 hour from our place. Too funny!
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I love blown out, beat-the-f-up tracks. However, my sketchiest track of all time involved cows. Back in the 70s I used to ride a fairly nice track on this guy's property. Awesome track, but one time he had let some cows into that area and I popped (pooped?) over a jump and ended up staring eye to eye with a cow in my landing path. I somehow managed to miss the cow and didn't crash, but I was sh!t'n green twinkies for a moment up in the air.
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Gorman MX track in CA........when it first started.........also I don't remember the name but there was a track down the road from old Indian Dunes that was sketchy on its best day!!!Wink Wink
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Lake Elsinore after being watered.
I concur........hard to believe they held a National there. Huh
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mauidex wrote:
Gorman MX track in CA........when it first started.........also I don't remember the name but there was a track down the road from old Indian Dunes that...
Gorman MX track in CA........when it first started.........also I don't remember the name but there was a track down the road from old Indian Dunes that was sketchy on its best day!!!Wink Wink
Lemon Grove?
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This one was a little sketchy. It was on a Indian Reservation within a mile of downtown Palm Springs. The track itself was pretty gnarly but the scariest part was when a angry Indian would show up with rifle in hand and want to know why you were on their sacred land. Luckily the family that gave us permission for the track was very high up on the Indian council

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Katoomey wrote:
that doesn't sound like a fun experience, but a damn good experience none the less. I've ridden Washougal in the mud a few times. Nothing like...
that doesn't sound like a fun experience, but a damn good experience none the less. I've ridden Washougal in the mud a few times. Nothing like that though. It's usually pretty rideable in the mud, well it was 10 years ago anyway.


That's one of the Expert class riders enjoying his day. I struggled like that in every corner, every jump face. I'm not a mudder to begin with and this was extreme.

Over the year Washougal has turned into kind of a pipeline track, where alot of the track is below grade in many places. It collects a lot of water and with the clay base it can't drain through. This photo shows the results.

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SX style track near Iowa city Iowa around 1991. Doubles and triples all super peaked, If you didn't hit them perfectly you were screwed. The entire track was as hard as concrete. Frankly I was terrified.
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Katoomey wrote:
that doesn't sound like a fun experience, but a damn good experience none the less. I've ridden Washougal in the mud a few times. Nothing like...
that doesn't sound like a fun experience, but a damn good experience none the less. I've ridden Washougal in the mud a few times. Nothing like that though. It's usually pretty rideable in the mud, well it was 10 years ago anyway.
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[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2018/01/26/240415/s1200_Muck.jpg[/img] That's one of the Expert class riders enjoying his day. I struggled like that in every corner, every jump face. I'm not a mudder to...


That's one of the Expert class riders enjoying his day. I struggled like that in every corner, every jump face. I'm not a mudder to begin with and this was extreme.

Over the year Washougal has turned into kind of a pipeline track, where alot of the track is below grade in many places. It collects a lot of water and with the clay base it can't drain through. This photo shows the results.

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That isn’t sketchy, that track is a train wreck!
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mauidex wrote:
Gorman MX track in CA........when it first started.........also I don't remember the name but there was a track down the road from old Indian Dunes that...
Gorman MX track in CA........when it first started.........also I don't remember the name but there was a track down the road from old Indian Dunes that was sketchy on its best day!!!Wink Wink
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Lemon Grove?
PIRU!!!! just remembered when I saw your post, now wheres my keys?!??!?!Tongue Tongue
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Not exactly a track, but a place where many of the local racers went to get some time in. There was a place off I-5 in...
Not exactly a track, but a place where many of the local racers went to get some time in. There was a place off I-5 in WA in Marysville that had a ton of natural sand whoops, berms, and some natural terrain to jump. Unfortunately after about noon, all the sketchy folks came out in their buggies, quads and pickups...in the few years we rode their, my dad got hit by a gal on a banshee with no brakes (coming out of s blind trail right into his side WFO...did I mention no brakes), as well as almost taking a pickup head-on.
The other problem was when a bunch of folks (usually local racers) would all agree on a “track” (linking a bunch of berms together, etc) only to have some moron go the opposite way.
I was riding sand trails in North Carolina and came around a corner in the woods and there was a dude on a quad with his little kid sitting on the bars coming right at me- no helmets or gear of course. In the split second he sees me he just closes his eyes and braces- I still feel bad for what must have been going through his mind at that second- I was moving pretty good.
I just slammed the rear brake and laid it down, then goosed the throttle to squirt out of his way.
I just stopped and looked back and shook my head, and he gave me a thumbs up and went on his way. I still don't know how I missed him. One of those things where you just hope for the best..

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El Cajon Motocross... at night... with the tweakers
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Indeed. Amago was pretty sketchy too, at times. No flaggers, very little maintenance, one dude running the whole show on a Saturday. I once saw a...
Indeed.


Amago was pretty sketchy too, at times. No flaggers, very little maintenance, one dude running the whole show on a Saturday.
I once saw a kid on an 85 jump that big, blind skyshot in the back of the track - straight into the water truck. The operator just decided it was time to water without flagging anybody off the course. He drove right onto the track and started watering. The poor kid didn't even get his wheels down before he hit, although that may have been better for him. There was a LifeFlight helicopter trip involved in that one.
I hit a water truck once, not like this, but still awful. I landed and tried to miss it but my handle bar got knipped and it pulled me back into the truck. 220lb man bounced off it like a rag doll.

Did the kid live to tell about it?

I had a tibial plateau fracture and it basically crushed my fibula.
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Hammer 663s wrote:
2 years ago, the OTMX race at Washougal. Rained like hell Friday night, but they'd prepped normal, not packing it for rain, so the entire track...
2 years ago, the OTMX race at Washougal. Rained like hell Friday night, but they'd prepped normal, not packing it for rain, so the entire track was a bog Saturday AM. We raced anyway after a 3 hour delay. At least 50% of each class couldn't make it up Horsepower Hill off the start, me included. I did 3 laps in my 20 minute moto, that's how bad it was. I don't know how many times I fell, but I was dead tired at the end. Then it rained even more Saturday night, and they called off the Sunday racing as the track was unrideable. Not the operators fault, just that PNW clay when tilled then flooded. Super sketchy through the trees.

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I used to drive out and do the OTMX race at Washougal. It rained pretty good in 2009 and the 50 expert was a quagmire and you're right, there were riders down all over hell. It's so slippery that you cannot pick the bike up when it's down without slipping and falling yourself, there were guys in the same spot standing by their bikes every lap.

Usually I finish somewhere in the high teens but I finished 3rd that race, my best finish ever...found out I was a mudder by accident.




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I hit a water truck once, not like this, but still awful. I landed and tried to miss it but my handle bar got knipped and...
I hit a water truck once, not like this, but still awful. I landed and tried to miss it but my handle bar got knipped and it pulled me back into the truck. 220lb man bounced off it like a rag doll.

Did the kid live to tell about it?

I had a tibial plateau fracture and it basically crushed my fibula.
2 kids hit a water truck at Riverdale WA a few years back.Jumped into it. One died, the other got hurt. That place has a sketchy rep. 3 tracks, no splits, few or no flaggers. Don't ride there much as it's not safe for my boy.

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ill come with a curve ball here being from NY, we have limited tracks only 2. The place was called CTF Calverton Training Facility, Ivan Tedesco came to ride one day its on youtube (the pro track) They have 3 tracks (sand, dirt/sand, dirt/sand) Pro track, Sand track, Little bikes track.

Turns out the pro track had 50ft gaps everywhere (which was very fun when I hit them) but never groomed, ever, rocks sand and dry dirt with no shade to protect the soil. The owners had millions of dollars and would groom the track once in the morning for the week, 50$ a day in NY too.

Place would built up with holes on the take-offs, loose sand everywhere, and the worst part they had about 5 massive dozers never used.

We all kept going since its NY and the only few tracks, but it was a dust bowl everyweekend it did not rain. All the tracks had so much potential with so much space and the owners were just clueless on how to utlize it. No flaggers, no classes, basically lets built 3 tracks never groom them and have a free for all with pros (Justin cooper rode with him) to 4 yr olds on pw50s.

gotta love ny
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KennyT wrote:
This one was a little sketchy. It was on a Indian Reservation within a mile of downtown Palm Springs. The track itself was pretty gnarly but...
This one was a little sketchy. It was on a Indian Reservation within a mile of downtown Palm Springs. The track itself was pretty gnarly but the scariest part was when a angry Indian would show up with rifle in hand and want to know why you were on their sacred land. Luckily the family that gave us permission for the track was very high up on the Indian council

That photo is BAD ASS! Looks super gnarly.
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Taylor415 wrote:
Haha sketchy always comes to mind when I hear about that blue grooved shithole
kunk wrote:
I almost hit a piece of equipment in the track and got sick on the trash can chicken
Polarbear332 wrote:
X3. Went there a few times in the early 2000’s, and the track was like concrete. Jump faces were horrible, and people were all over the...
X3. Went there a few times in the early 2000’s, and the track was like concrete. Jump faces were horrible, and people were all over the place. The last time I went out there my pops got knocked out in the back section. Haven’t been back since. Heard they have freestyle ramps out there for all of the Bro’s now.

Boondoxx is right up there with Shady Grove.
Agreed. From the homeless guy who took your money to the burn barrel hotdogs to the concrete surface. That place SUCKED! Did any of y’all have the pleasure of riding the “sx” track back by the shady grove bridge? Thing was so scary. I’ll be a dick and throw lucky landings in the ring too. Track isn’t horrible but it draws out a very green crowd and seems every time I’m there someone screws up a jump and flys off the vertical berms #nets
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Big Air Motocross in Newaygo, Mi. Track does not have flaggers for practice sessions and pretty much all of their jumps are blind. If someone crashes on a jump, you are pretty effed. Buddy got hurt pretty bad because someone crashed on the landing of a 90ft triple dubbed "barn triple" and ejected at about 30ft in the air to avoid landing directly on the kid. I swear, every year someone gets seriously hurt at that track in spring. Usually femurs and collar bones. This past summer a guy died at the track during a race. They called the ambulance, pulled him off the track and kept running races. Bad enough the owners don't even ride at the track. They go to the practice track about an hour south of theirs because it's better kept, groomed for every ride, watered well, and has flaggers every practice session. Track waits for the dust to go full sand storm before the bare bones track crew decides to water. They also don't break up the practices if there is a huge amount of riders. They just let about 60 A & B people on the track when the track can only support maybe 25 people at best safely. Never ride at that track ever again.
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You guys are lucky. Most tracks here are groomed maybe once a year in average... That maybe why the Frenchies stand up more !

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